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ESEA renewal may see new momentum
- 01-28-2011
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By Alyson Klein/Education Week
Education leaders in Congress are signaling that they’re prepared to collaborate with the White House on a long-stalled reauthorization of the main federal law for K-12 education, after President Barack Obama sought to move education back to the top of the national agenda in his State of the Union address this week. Precollegiate policy is widely seen as one of the few areas on which the politically divided Congress can cooperate with the Obama administration. White House backing is considered crucial to building and sustaining momentum for a rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which an array of observers have argued is in serious need of revision. Its current version, the No Child Left Behind Act, was signed into law nine years ago. Key lawmakers acknowledged this week that enacting legislation to reauthorize the ESEA would be tricky, but said they were ready to get going. (more…)
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